I loved this one! The cover art is cute and cozy and the overall story is perfect for cuddling up with a warm drink and reading! This one was a perfect and sweet holiday story packed with plenty of fun character, holiday cheer, and of course a romantic subplot. This book would be perfect for holiday reading! It is cozy, sweet, and full of holiday magic.

The kind of book which gives you warm feelings. I loved experiencing Holly's journey through a difficult time and the build up between her and Edward. It's a cozy read and perfect for this time of the year.

“The Little Christmas House” is a heartwarming, cozy and sweet book to pick up in the winter.

Holly Hanwell just got her heart broken by her boyfriend who left,just for him to have a baby with someone else.
Edward just purchased Christmas House for him and his eight years old daughter and they are ready to start over and make the place feel like home.

The characters are sweet people, two adults who are doing what they can to move on from their own things, and a child who was my favourite character and I love her to pieces. I loved how mature she is and how much she wants peace and comfort. She is genuine, sweet and smart.

There are no dramas in this book, no harsh scenes or annoying moments. It’s just an emotional book, with a positive story and humorous. I loved how the author showed how important are the small things in life, like pancakes for breakfast and seeing foxes in the backyard.

Even if it’s a romance book, the romance is a secondary theme, and I liked that. It made the characters realistic and mature, especially with a child involved.

“The Little Christmas House” is a lovely book, perfect for reading it in the winter, while you’re drinking a cup of hot chocolate in front of the fireplace.

Many thanks to NetGalley for a copy!

I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

I loved that the story was quite relatable about having to start over again but still capturing the cozy Xmasy feelings. And a cute Happy End!

Book wasn't meant for me. Hopefully someone will enjoy it more. I will look into renting it in the future

A lovely little heartwarming story of starting over and finding love again.
**Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley in exchange of an honest review. **

The Little Christmas House is a delightful novel perfect as an easy read. Set in a picturesque English village at Christmas time it is the tale of broken hearts and how they can be mended when you least expect it.

Holly is a teacher at a local Primary School and has recently split from her boyfriend after discovering his infidelity and impending fatherhood with another woman. Edward has recently moved to the village with his young daughter after suffering their own heartbreak while living in Leeds.

I am a huge fan of Tracy Rees but didn’t find this book as engaging as some of her others. Still recommended as a heartwarming festive read.

This was such a cute festive read, with a definite warm and fuzzy feeling. The characters are relatable and it was a refreshing read,

This was such a cute Christmas romance! I love Christmas books all year long and this was just perfect for what I needed for Christmas in July! Highly recommend!

Fun and festive with a lovely community vibe. It also deals with some tougher topics like divorce, infertility, and abandonment by a parent. However, I did feel it lacked a little Christmas cheer.

A really great story, charming, atmospheric, great characters. Filled me with warmth and spirit. Well written and flowed nicely, was romantic and funny, charming and full of fun. A great read, i really enjoyed it.

Loved this super sweet story. Eliza and her dad are trying to start a new life in a new place. She loves her school and her new teacher. Holly is getting over a horrible breakup and not only falls in love with her student Eliza, but her dad Edward as well. A beautiful story about life falling into place right at the perfect time.

In my review of 'Hidden Secrets at the Little Village Church' I said that reading that book was "pure, pure joy".

Well, reading 'The Little Christmas House' was "pure, pure joy"x2! We are back at Hopley Village and it even has a house called Christmas House! This book gave me all the Christmasy feels with the snow, twinkling lights, mugs of hot chocolate, cookies, a Christmas play about angels with a live reindeer making a special appearance and some wonderful, quirky and lovable characters including a fox. Eliza the eight year daughter of the male protagonist Edward was just adorably huggable and definitely stole the show! A cute, heartwarming story about second chances in love with a bit of holiday magic.

My thanks to NetGalley, the publisher Bookouture and the author Tracy Rees for the e-Arc of the book. I had already read this book months ago but just got around to writing a review for it so apologies for the delay.

A fabulously festive Christmas read.

If you’re looking for a book with great community spirit and cosy Christmas vibes look no further.

A wonderful book focusing on different point of views as each character goes on a personal
Journey in the village to find themselves.

A hopeful and positive read.

This was absolutely one of my top seasonal reads in December! It was so absolutely heartwarming and I loved everything about it. The plot went beyond just a cozy romance and had me invested in so many of the characters and their situations.


(I received a copy of this title via NetGalley. Opinions are my own.)

I really enjoyed The Little Christmas House by Tracy Rees, it was a lovely Christmassy read which was light and easy to read. A happy holiday story that I read in one sitting, I loved it.

The Little Christmas Village is the second book by Tracy Rees to be set in the village of Hopley but it’s quite easily read as a standalone as just one or two characters from the previous book are mentioned and even at that just very briefly. I have loved all of Tracy’s historical fiction books and am thoroughly enjoying her new journey into the romantic end of women’s fiction. This book was a dream of a read. It really got me into the festive mood and it’s perfect to curl up with on a dark winters day and to enjoy a few hours in the company of Holly and Edward. The setting of the village is fabulous and really comes to life off the pages, thanks to the authors vivid and detailed descriptions not to mention the added inclusion this time around of Christmas House and its residents and the surrounding countryside which plays such a lovely part in the story.

Last Christmas things were good for Holly, her relationship with partner of 10 years Alex was going well and he had just been made partner in his solicitors firm. She had hoped to have children in the future and in general things were looking good in her life. Fast forward a year and things have changed dramatically. She is now single, and her dreams of a family are in tatters. Alex is now firmly out of the picture considering his abhorrent actions and Holly is doing her best to move on. Christmas is usually her favourite festival of all but this year she’s not too sure can she summon the enthusiasm to love it.

Holly is a teacher and loves her job and is hoping that the preparations for the Christmas pageant will take her mind off feeling melancholy and wondering what might have been? It’s clear when we are first introduced to Holly that she has suffered a major blow and no one would blame her for feeling considerably down over it but I loved the way despite how she was feeling she never let anything get her way of her work and the dedication she has to teaching and the connections and relationships she builds with the children in her care meant I felt nothing but admiration for her. She really understood the inner workings of a child’s mind and despite going through such inner turmoil herself she was always on the go, helping others, spotting problems and seeking resolutions and just in general trying to make life better for those children in her class.

Holly was dedicated, enthusiastic and hardworking and this transpired to all aspects of her life. She longed to have children of her own and find that true soulmate and you feel devastated that when she thought she had this that it was so abruptly snatched from her grasp. Holly shed her own hopes and dreams and focused all her energies on the children and the pageant and in particular a little girl called Eliza, new to the village, who is someone in need of a helping hand. Holly’s compassion, kindness, intelligence and consideration radiates from the pages and she has to be one of my favourite characters that I have had the pleasure to read about in a Christmas book this year. She certainly had been though the mill as in the later stages of her relationship Alex had made her feel unimportant as a human being likening herself to a boat washed up and stranded on the shore. I thought the analogy of the acer tree losing its leaves and coming back to life was just so apt and perfect for the way Holly was feeling. It was like over the course of the story she was shedding her old skin and the loss of her hopes and dreams but at the same stage she was forging a new path in life and coming back to a new version of herself.

In helping herself and committing herself wholeheartedly to the pageant and her quest to make Eliza be who she truly could be, Holly was in fact going on her own personal journey although perhaps unbeknownst to herself. She was so self-deprecating and she prides herself on being brave and positive and putting on a good face but she has been cut very deep by what has happened to her. Wouldn’t you be if your life has imploded in such a big way. But I just loved her overall attitude and how she really worked on herself and at the same time helped Edward and Eliza in a way that they would never forget and in doing so I wondered the further the story progressed, could there be a happy ending for everyone or will there be some unexpected surprises coming their way that may lead to misunderstandings and not a chance of that ending that I had craved right from the beginning?

Edward is a single parent recently arrived to the village with his young daughter Eliza. He has bought the beautiful Christmas House in the countryside outside Hopley and although it needs a lot of work Edward is determined to provide the best life that he possibly can for his daughter given the departure of her mother. Edward is struggling to balance everything -work, home-life and Eliza. At times although he is a parent he feels that he is the kid that needs looking after. He is fiercely protective of Eliza, after all the trauma of the abandonment by her mother has left many visible scars. Edward was a brilliantly written character on an equal footing with Holly as to how brilliant I thought they both were. You could tell that Edward just wanted someone to take him by the hand and guide him in the right direction and help him do what was best for Eliza. He was a proud dad and fiercely over protective and I hoped that Holly would soften things a bit. Holly could tell instantly that there was a fracture in his Eliza’s spirit that she was haunted. She had so much potential but it all seemed to be doused leading her to be subdued and forlorn. Holly wonders what can have happened to make a young girl be this way and why is she so reluctant to join in with the pageant? Surely that’s every little girl’s dream to be in their Christmas show.

It took a bit of time for Holly and Edward to actually meet face to face but when they do the story took on a whole other level of just general loveliness and I just completely lost myself in everything that was unfolding. It was so magical and I loved how the plot was developing with those characteristics of Christmas that Tracy mentioned at the end so evidence in abundance in the way Holly acted. In taking on a little quest Holly was starting to find new purpose and meaning in her life and maybe Christmas wasn’t going to be so bad after all. The tentative connection between Holly and Edward that was more than Holly just being Eliza’s teacher and wanting the best for her was starting to brew but I sensed a smooth path would not be that forthcoming.

The Little Christmas House was such an uplifting, sweet, cosy Christmas read with such warm lovable characters that bring you on an exhilarating journey that you won’t forget in a hurry. There are lots of problems to deal with and plenty of soul searching to be undertaken but it’s done in such a way that the characters come alive off the page to meet you and take you by the hand and are eager to have you share in their story and learn some life lessons from it too. I loved every minute of this wonderful, gorgeous read as I really connected with the characters especially Holly.

The only minor problem I had overall was that the ending felt just ever so slightly rushed given all the fantastic build up to it. I would have loved a chapter or two more or even if that was to be it even a follow up short story in the future. Can you tell I wasn’t ready for the story to end or to leave these deeply impressionable characters behind? Pushing that issue aside this is definitely a book I would highly recommend you read over the festive season. It truly does give you all the feels that a book of this nature should. In the end notes the author mentions how this story started out as a short story over 24 years ago and she has waited all this time to make it full length. I guess as similar to me the characters just wouldn’t get out of her head. Tracy Rees mentions that she wanted to capture the most magical time of year. A time of connectedness, collaboration and co-operation all of which make the season so special and she has truly done this to absolute perfection.

I loved this book by Tracy Rees. A real pleasure to be back in Hopley again, with new characters and new challenges. I’m loving this new direction for Tracy.

Edward and his daughter Eliza move to the Christmas House which is a bit of a fixer upper. They are trying to escape and build a new life where people don’t know his wife left him and his daughter 3 years ago for fame and fortune. Eliza blossoms at her new school and under her new teacher, Holly. They find a caretaker and thins start looking up. Eliza debates with herself if she should do the school Christmas play. She’s been avoiding the stage since her mother ran off. Edward and Holly start to develop a friendship. Could it be more than that? How will Christmas be in their new house?

This wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. The story itself was very slow. It was also a bit sad throughout with struggles of divorce, parent abandonment and infertility. I liked the setting of the house and the Christmas play but it wasn’t heartwarming or romantic enough for me. It was told in alternating POV from Edward, Eliza and Holly. I was infuriated at Eliza’s mother, Cressida, and was happy with the ending of the story though pretty predictable. It was a little Hallmarky which I do like but it needed to be a little happier and more fast paced for me to really enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC for an honest review.